[L2Ork-dev] $0 weirdness

[Albert Graef]

Hi Ico,

thanks, everything fine and dandy here again. :) Hope that you're fine too!

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Ivica Bukvic <ico at vt.edu> wrote:

> The reason for this change is because a label that is only the pound sign
> by itself in the vanilla version it gets dubiously converted into a dollar
> sign. This makes it impossible to use that character in a label.


Ok, I understand. Yeah, I noticed that as well, it's annoying.

But as long as Pd-L2Ork only runs on Linux, being able to exchange patches
with other Pd flavors is important (also for my students who usually run
OSX or Windows at home).

The new format will also bite long-time Pd-L2Ork users since (depending on
their use of $i in abstractions) their patches will suddenly stop working.
In fact, I had this happen to me, that's how I noticed.

Also, the use of control characters in patch files may throw off mime type
recognition and make it harder to exchange patches via email.

In the fix that the new version has this is now possible without affecting
> the use of dynamic variables like $0. If you can think of a better way to
> do this while retaining the backwards compatibility I am all for it.


Instead of a replacement for the # character, how about introducing a
Pd-L2Ork-specific way of escaping # in labels? I'm not sure how hard it is
to implement that, but then only users who actually need that feature would
be affected. All others wouldn't even notice that there was a change in the
patch format, and everyone would be happy. ;-)

Albert

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